Cetus -Protocol posted one $ 5 million reward on May 23 For information that identifies and leads the arrest of the attacker $ 223 million extracted from his decentralized exchange On the SUI network.
Announced on May 23, the offer is coordinated with cyber security company Inca Digital and will be financed by the SUI Foundation if the tip turns out to be decisive.
Informants must e -mail the name, location and support of the proof of the perpetrator with the subject of ‘Cetus Lead’. The DEX added that it would take every civil action and cancel the premium if the exploitation would return the assets and accept the earlier settlement proposal.
The offer is mainly amidst centralization -delivery about SUI after freezing $ 162 million by many of his 114 validators.
WhiteHAT offer sets the stage
Hours for the public premium, CETUS used an on-chain transaction to deliver one Farewell proposal to the attacker On Sui and Ethereum (ETH) block chains.
That memorandum offered a retention costs of $ 6 million, equal to 2,324 ETH, in exchange for the efficiency of 20,920 ETH and all frozen amounts on SUI.
The team said it had mapped the Ethereum portfolios of the exploor and coordinated with American federal authorities, Fincen, the police of Seychelles, selected partners for defense sector, large exchanges and bridge managers.
The ultimatum warned that any attempt to launch funds white would cause a global escalation of law enforcement.
According to the incidental disclosure of 22 May of the Protocol to X, the attacker focused on an error in the price mechanism of Cetus, which gave rise to an immediate break of all smart activities. The blockchain data of the project show that the exploit yielded $ 223 million in tokens.
Of that amount, $ 61 million was moved to Ethereum via Bridges, while the remaining $ 162 million was frozen by Sui network validators.
CETUS has not unveiled when the normal trade is resumed or that the team will implement code changes before the contracts reactivate.
Validator campaign wraps decentralization debate
By Block Explorer“ Sui host 114 active validators. On May 22, Sui stated That a broad plurality corresponded to rejecting any transaction from the portfolios of the attacker shortly after the infringement.
The collective freezing prevented the remaining transfer of $ 162 million and locked the tokens on the chain.
Gautham Santhosh, co-founder of Polynomialfi, wrote on x That the crypto community now weighs the advantage of fast assets protection against the implication that validators can suspend specific accounts as desired.
Although he emphasized that the process demanded consensus and was not random, the episode has changed the security recording with regard to low-1 block chains.
